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RIP Helen Suzman

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:22 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Among the solid and overwhelmingly male Afrikaners in Parliament, “baying like hounds at a meet”, she was noisy, rude, contemptuous, “thoroughly nasty when I get going”. “A vicious little cat”, said P.W. Botha, South Africa’s prime minister,
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displ ... d=12884799
But the claws on her “pretty little pink hands” had drawn blood, and they were never retracted.

Re: RIP Helen Suzman

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:28 pm
by ghostjmf
A classy lady, & I'm glad to have heard of her, even though the occasion is a sad one.

Its a Jewish tenet that (whether you personally believe in an afterlife for individuals or not) people live on as long as they live in living people's memory, so now she'll live on in mine.